Upcoming Events
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Operation Stand Down Nashville
Professional Development Seminar 5/25/12
As part of the Boyens Group’s “Operation Give Back” program, I’ll be presenting the second seminar in a Professional Development Series, that we custom designed for the staff of Operation Stand Down Nashville, Inc. (OSDN) on May 25th. Acknowledging that our freedom to pursue business success is directly due to the sacrifices of our Veterans, we are donating our business expertise to OSDN going forward.
OSDN is the primary nonprofit resource for veterans in Middle Tennessee providing life changing social services including transitional housing, or referrals, employment readiness training and placement assistance, and coordination of the activities of other agencies in the delivery of such services. They are the only VA approved and supported Veteran Service Center in Tennessee. Their clients are honorably discharged veterans with an emphasis on veterans who are homeless. Their ultimate goal is to give veterans in need the tools to rejoin their community as productive, responsible citizens.
Their unique partnership with the VA Medical Center and the VA Regional Office allows them to provide more direct, personal social services than any other agency in this area.
No veteran should be homeless. No veteran who wants to work should be jobless. No veteran should feel hopeless. OSDN has and will continue to successfully aid veterans in restoring their lives and we are committed to assist them in that effort.
This seminar is for OSDN exclusively and therefore not open to the public.
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5 Keys to Sales Management
Advanced One- Hour Webinar August 23, 2012
Are you looking for ways to become a better manager? Team members will follow you if they believe that you have a clear vision of where you’re going – that you have their best interests in mind and if they believe that you’re in it with them.
Are you looking for ways to become a better manager? Team members will follow you if they believe that you have a clear vision of where you’re going – that you have their best interests in mind and if they believe that you’re in it with them.
John Boyens will be facilitating a one-hour, Leadership Webinar that will be “open” to the public on August 23,2012. This interactive webinar will include the sharing of sales management “Best Practices” from over 5,000 leaders from a variety of industries across the globe, over 15 years of buyer-based research data to ensure that each attendee will walk away with tips/techniques that will positively impact their business the very next day. Webinar attendees will learn:
- How to Motivate Without Money
- The Five Fatal Flaws of Management and more importantly how to avoid them
- The Secrets to Recruiting, selecting and Hiring the Best Talent available
- The Keys to Managing the Difficult Employee
- The Secrets of De-Hiring People Who Aren’t Performing
This complementary 60 minute webinar is open to the public. Seating is limited to allow all to participate fully.
August 23, 2012
Time: 3:00pm CST
Contact us to reserve your seat -john@boyens.com or (615) 776-1257
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Pat Summitt Keynote Speaker in Nashville
Accelerent Business Event 6/22/12
Pat Summit will be our keynote speaker at our June 22nd Nashville Accelerent Business Event. This invitation-only event will be held at the Wildhorse. There will be over 400 business leaders from the middle Tennessee area in attendance to hear Pat speak. This is a great opportunity to make invaluable business connections, hear Pat’s inspirational message and enjoy a free continental breakfast.
Pat Summitt:
She is forthright, respected, ethical, and a winner who serves as a shining example in the sport of collegiate basketball.
“She” is Pat Head Summitt, head coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteer basketball team, who has just completed her 38th season at the helm of the Lady Vols in 2011-12 and sports a remarkable 1,098-208 overall record.
Every time she steps out on the court, she raises the bar in the collegiate basketball world.
On Aug. 23, 2011, Summitt might have raised the bar on courage as she bravely revealed the toughest opponent she will ever have to battle, early onset dementia, “Alzheimer’s type,” after the doctors at the Mayo Clinic diagnosed her at the age of 59. To be sure, Summitt has taken on this opponent with her signature game plan.
The Tennessee skipper didn’t look at it as a bold move, rather continuing her lifelong practice of both herself and her program being an open book.
The immediate groundswell of support was truly amazing. A “We Back Pat” campaign sprang up overnight and went viral in the social media world. A t-shirt was born with the slogan and proceeds starting pouring into Summitt-picked organizations, Alzheimer’s Tennessee and the University of Tennessee Medical Center. In November 2011, Summitt announced the formation of The Pat Summitt Foundation Fund.
In announcing her diagnosis, Pat was being just Pat, but a number of organizations hailed her courage to come forward.
The United States Sports Academy awarded Summitt its 2011 Mildred “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias Courage Award for her indomitable spirit in her public battle with early-onset dementia, Alzheimer’s type…On October 4, it was announced that Summitt would receive the 2011 Maggie Dixon Courage Award… Also in October, The Huffington Post named Summitt a 2011 Game Changer – an innovator, leader and role model who is changing the way we look at the world and the way we live in it…The Tennessee Communication Association selected Summitt for its highest honor, Communicator of the Year.
Sports Illustrated presented Summitt on the cover of the magazine as the 2011 Sportswoman of the Year; the NCAA selected her for the prestigious Gerald R. Ford President’s Award at the 2012 NCAA Convention in January; the United States Basketball Writers Association presented her with their “Courage” Award at the 2012 Final in Denver, Colo., and she was named the 2012 Tennessean of the Year in April.
The incomparable Summitt has built collegiate basketball’s “hoopdom” at Tennessee. A program developed tirelessly, diligently and successfully by Summitt, her staff and the select group of 161 all-time basketball student-athletes who have been fortunate enough to don the Orange & White jerseys of the Tennessee Lady Volunteers.
Summitt, already the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history (men or women), has eight NCAA Championships in the trophy case including her most recent back-to-back titles in 2007 and 2008.
A brief synopsis of Summitt’s resume goes like this: A consummate taskmaster, she has kept her elite program in the winner’s circle for almost four decades, producing a mind-boggling record of 1,098-208 (.842). During her tenure, the Lady Vols have won eight NCAA titles, as well as an amazing 32 Southeastern Conference tournament and regular season championships. Tennessee has made an unprecedented 31 consecutive appearances in the NCAA Tournament and produced 12 Olympians, 21 State Farm/Kodak All-Americans named to 36 teams, and 77 All-SEC performers. Along with the success on the court, Summitt’s student-athletes have tremendous productivity in the classroom. Coach Summitt has a 100 percent graduation rate for all Lady Vols who have completed their eligibility at Tennessee.
Her honors and achievements over the years number in the hundreds. The Sporting News named the 50 Greatest Coaches of All-Time. Summitt was voted the 11th best of all-time and was the only woman on the list. She was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame on June 5, 1999 and into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on October 13, 2000. Other recent accolades: inducted as the third member of the Tennessee Women’s Hall of Fame on June 17, 2011; a resolution by the U.S. House of Representatives on June 5, 2009; an honorary doctorate from the United States Sports Academy on May 19, 2009; receiving the 2009 WNBA Inspiring Coach Award on April 7, 2009, and being honored by her peers with the RUSSELL ATHLETIC/WBCA Victory Club Award for 1,000 career wins on April 6, 2009.
- Where: Wildhorse Saloon, 120 2nd Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37201
- Time: 7:30 am – 9:30 am CST
- Date: June 22, 2012
Contact us to reserve your seat -john@boyens.com or (615) 776-1257
